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Comment Re:'Bout time (Score 1) 917

The iPhone problem is nothing new and has been in all iPhones to date and non-iPhones I owned prior. Apple is a big name so people make a big deal out of everything they do. They get a lot of free press/hype when things are good and when things are bad it can quickly turn around.

APPLE make the big deal about their products. THEY create the expectation through their wall to wall marketing blitzes and so on.

If Jobs wasn't such a smug douche about these things there wouldn't be half the fuss there is today IMO

Comment Good (Score 1) 284

Now we know who to block to avoid those douche "Sent from my iPad" email footers

I have taken to replying to ANY of these with a "Sent from my Combine Harvester" or similar thing back.

We don't care about your toy. And while we are at it, do you have to mention your iPad in every tweet and email? sheesh.

Sorry. Been a long day.

Comment Good Timing (Score 1) 85

Just bought a new PC for a dedicated Sim box, so the timing is perfect.

FG 1.9.1 sound was a bit buggy on my old 2.8GHz Arch system, and I figure the old Celeron needed replacing.

I'm learning to fly right now and I find the flight model in FG is mostly accurate (the niggles I have are minor and not that important), and given MS have dumped Flight Simulator it looks like more focus will be on FlightGear and XPlane.

(I really upgraded my box for XPlane, but I have been using Flightgear for years on and off)

Here's hoping more people get behind it and bring more planes and scenery on board (and tools to make them!)

Comment Re:Forget the math, you're missing the point here. (Score 1) 369

Agreed,

There is no real data integrity with these devices.

I can get the track log of my GPS, manipulate the data and then shove it back in to the device...

Any good lawyer could get this 'evidence' thrown out.

There's been cases here in Australia where the GPS evidence WAS allowed and they got off the infringment, but I can only assume that the prosecuting lawyers were incompetent and did not pursue the possibility of bad data in the GPS.

Also, the Radar is a certified calibrated instrument,and the GPSr is not. Although accurate, there is always a variable amount of uncertainty in every reading (up to 10-15 meters per sample in a moving vehicle) and in a majority of GPSrs this uncertainty is not stored in the logs. Radar wins again on that front.

As for the logs, most GPSrs I use store the last speed value at the log interval, not an averaged speed between then and the last stored sample, so it is safe to assume at X time on the log the car was going Y speed, but for the 10 seconds in between it could have been going anything between 0 and lightspeed. (presuming it is storing every 10 seconds.....)

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